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Rhiannon Willis was 8 and had already gone blind in one eye when she had her first appointment with Professor Peng Tee Khaw

Rhiannon Willis was eight years old, and on the verge of going blind, when she
met Professor Peng Tee Khaw at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. “As a
child, things are black or white,” she remembers. “It’s, ‘I like you or I
don’t like you,’ and with some doctors, you take a while to make up your
mind. With Professor Khaw it was very clear. I thought, ‘I like you. You
know what you’re doing and I trust you.’ ”

Willis, now 20, was diagnosed at the age of 2 with uveitis – inflammation of
the eye – and, in spite of a